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I sometimes talk about an aspect of our Zen practice I call “acceptance without acceptance” … By that I mean an approach to all the ugly and painful aspects of life and this world which are just so hard (perhaps impossible) to accept. We can accept and not accept simultaneously, repair what needs to be…

DUE TO VIDEO RECORDING ISSUES (the recording stopped in the middle) … COMBINED WITH A CASE OF THE FLU (I fell off the Zafu twice and sneezed through my talk) … THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF THE MARCH ZAZENKAI … Please join our APRIL (really MARCH) MONTHLY 4-hour ‘Live from Treeleaf’ ZAZENKAI, recorded in “real…

How to “sit Zazen” when one has the flu, and can’teven sit? Just be “at one” with your runny nose, your aching bones, sneeze each sneeze as aperfect sneeze … and when you barf, taste that it is just the Buddha Barfing!   There is Just Barfing, and it is a wonder. That’s how.  …

The start of April is the day when we traditionally celebrate in the Zen world the birth of that great Vietnamese Zen Patriarch, Master ‘Duc Tho’ (or as he is more commonly known to those who love him ‘Su su’) Master Duc Tho is, of course, well known in Asia and, for the last few…
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